Chapter 44: Building Bridges

There is a complete difference between those who have killed and those who have not; Killing people in ordinary times is completely different from killing people on the battlefield. It is not shy to say that the feeling of killing is no less than sex, and the pleasure of killing on the battlefield is like experiencing an orgasm, and the body will involuntarily tremble with excitement at this time. After killing someone, the heart beats faster, everything becomes illusory again, and people seem to float in the clouds, becoming the master of all things. The only bad thing is that after returning to the real world, there will be inexplicable pain and vomiting.

Disdain, although not quite accurate, can still be described in this word. When a person comes back from killing someone on the battlefield, he will see the eyes of ordinary people with disdain. This disdain is prone to a kind of pity, lamenting how pitiful ordinary people are.

Xiong Jing took Mi Xuan north to Qifeng, just to want her to kill a Qin pawn on the battlefield and complete this psychological transformation. But this seems to be a little difficult, the cavalry is the elite of the Qin army's cavalry, and the woman is naturally weak, if it weren't for the protection of the giant armor, she would have lost her forever just this time.

Mi Xuan had only cried for a moment in Xiong Jing's arms, and when the guard knight came running, she had wiped away her tears and got on her horse as if nothing had happened, and her smile was not unusual. Except for the mark on the armor that was reprimanded by the Qin people, nothing happened.

"It's hard for our army to save the beam." Back in Kaifeng, Li Li, who had been circling half of the beam for several days, saw Xiong Jing is this sentence.

"How much grain is there in the city?" Xiong Jing believed in Li Ji's judgment, and did not dare to rashly fight with the Qin army.

"It may be winter." Wei Jianwei came out of Daliang, and knew the situation in the city better than anything. "If it's winter, the siege can't be solved......"

He didn't go on in full, but the meaning was self-explanatory. If the siege of Daliang cannot be relieved in the autumn and winter, the city will be broken, at least the Wei State will surrender to Qin, and it is difficult to say whether the Zhao State surrendered or not, and I am afraid that in the face of a desperate situation, it can only surrender to Qin.

Xiong Jing's gaze returned to Li Ji's face, hoping that he would come up with a solution. Li He pondered for a while and said, "Instead of fighting with the Qin people, the minister thinks it is better to build a bridge." ”

"Build bridges, build bridges?" Including Xiong Jing, everyone in the Ming Hall was surprised.

"Dare to ask Si Yin, to the east of the chasm, there are water water, water and Danshui, and the water is more than a few zhang deep, how to build a bridge?" Wei Jian asked worriedly.

"It is not a bridge over the waters." Li said. "It's to build a bridge over Makizawa."

"Build a bridge over Makizawa?!" Li Er's words caused even more controversy, Muze is twenty or thirty miles away from the beam, this width is wider than some sections of the Yellow River, and it is regarded by everyone as a fantasy.

"Muze is more than 20 miles away from the girder, and the water is several feet deep, I don't know how Si Yin will build a bridge?" Wei Jianwu didn't speak, and the doorman next to him spoke with his acquiescence. "And the Qin people's boat master swims in Muze, building a bridge today, and burning it tomorrow, isn't it a wasteless effort, and a drum and a dolphin?"

"I built a bridge with huge cement, how did the Qin people burn it?" He asked rhetorically. "The Qin people are also masters. To solve the siege of the girders, there is no other way than to turn water into land. After speaking, Li looked at Xiong Jing again: "Da Ao Mingjian, what our army discussed before was to erect three pontoon bridges to cross the chasm, Lishui and Suishui, and relieve the siege of the girder between Suishui and Danshui, which is not feasible." The minister thought that a concrete bridge could be erected on top of Muze, and the city wall could be directly girdered. ”

"How to build a bridge when the water is deep?" Xiong Jing asked. "Zeshang has another Qin Junzhou division......"

"The Qin Army's boat division can be driven away by artillery. The depth of the water in Makisawa can be bridged by the caisson method, and the bridge can be built by the cofferdam method if the water is shallow. ”

It is not a whimsical pat on the head to say that building a bridge, and solving the siege of the girder is not a new problem, but an old problem. In fact, there was a simpler solution that he did not say, that is, if the sea-boat gunboats with armor installed on both sides of the board could relieve the siege of the girders if they sailed into the chasm, but that would be too risky.

The seven gunboats deployed in the Red Ocean were all withdrawn, the state of Chu lost control of the Red Sea and the spice producing areas, and more than 8,000 mercenaries were temporarily placed in the port of Mongarja, because the return cargo ships were full of goods and there was no extra tonnage to carry them.

Together with the five sea boats launched last year, the Chu army has a total of twelve gunboats; Together with the converted gunboats of the Gluttonous class, there are a total of twenty gunboats. Although 10 gunboats will be launched this year, if 20 gunboats are lost in the chasm, it will inevitably affect the entire evacuation plan. Besides, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the north and south cities of Daliang, and twenty gunboats are a drop in the bucket, and there is no way to transport all the people in the city out.

From the perspective of operations, Li Ji thinks about it in this way. Xiong Jing is worried about whether the bridge can be built, and then the time and materials consumed by the bridge. He was still groaning, and he said, "Is a long bridge of twenty or thirty miles worth more than a city of fifty miles?" ”

"This is less than October from autumn and winter, and a long bridge of more than 20 miles will be built in October?" Xiong Jing thought it was incredible, the time was too short.

"It's not built in October." Li said. "As far as I know, if a person in the city eats one stone a month from today, the millet in the city will be eaten for at least a year; If the charcoal is not enough, if the house is demolished, it can be used until at least next year. ”

Li and accurately said that there was grain stored in the city, and Wei Jian was surprised. He, the person who asked for help, naturally wanted to say that the situation in the city was as critical as possible, but he didn't expect that he would know what was going on in Daliang City.

"A year?" Xiong Jing still felt that the time was too short. This kind of temporary emergency bridge naturally cannot be compared with the highway bridge and railway bridge in later generations, but it is more than 20 miles long, and he still thinks it is incredible.

"More than a year." Li said. "Before the water was diverted, Muze was only five miles long from north to south, and it was okay to cross Muze or not to cross Muze. If you don't enter the pasture, the water is deep, and the shallow water is less than seven feet, so why is it difficult to build a bridge with more than one foot of water? And more than 20 miles have to build a 20-mile long bridge, I use artillery to drive the Qin people war boats, within five or six miles, the Qin people do not enter. ”

If the water depth is only one or two meters, it is really not difficult to build a bridge. It's just that the bridge is too long, more than 20 miles is 10,000 meters, minus 6 miles, there are also more than 7,000 meters. Assuming that the bridge is 30 meters long, it will require more than 200 piers. More than 360 days a year is equivalent to a day and a half to repair a bridge pier. Xiong Jing thought about it again and again, and finally said, "If this matter is not reported in detail......

"There is a detailed report." He came prepared, but of course his report was not presented immediately.

"If you can build a bridge, it is indeed better than a water war." Deng Sui also agreed to build bridges to break the siege. Daliang, which was surrounded by the Shuize River, could only be relieved by boats, and the Chu army only wanted to fight with the Qin army on land, not with the Qin army.

"It takes time to build bridges, but if it is feasible, it will be great." Peng Zong also said.

"Yes." E Le has no opinion, he is still distressed about the loss of the E Division.

"If this is possible, then build a bridge." Xiong Jing agreed, and the matter of rescuing Daliang was decided.